Podcasts about mckeever conwell

In this episode, Saka invites McKeever Conwell II to speak about his experience starting his own venture capital fund ‘Rarebreed Ventures', giving advice to startups, founders and investors whilst reflecting on his own journey. McKeever Conwell II is a Baltimore-based investor who left tech development agency TEDCO to start his own venture capital fund, Rarebreed Ventures. It is designed to be the first investor backing large companies like TEDCO. He has a wealth of knowledge of the early stages as he has been both an investor and a founder.  McKeever knows what it's like to be an entrepreneur trying to seek funding, so has lots of useful experience he has shared. His key piece of advice is to remember that the relationship between founders and investors is a partnership.  Saka's Is That So? is a podcast that focuses on challenging conventional norms across a range of industries including entrepreneurship, finance, tech, society and culture, to help us question things we assume as true.

Mac Conwell is an experienced software engineer and former tech startup founder. Currently Conwell is using his talents, investment philosophy and expertise to raise 10 million dollars for his venture capital firm, RareBreed ventures. RareBreed Ventures is closing in on that goal and is investing in founders before everyone else. Conwell sits down with MIW podcast team and shares how he's found great entrepreneurs in areas where many aren't looking.

Join Vik, Bree, and their special guest, Mac Conwell of Rare Breed VC, for a heartwarming episode that traverses Mac's extraordinary path from his roots in Baltimore and days at a crab shack to the pinnacle of raising his own venture fund. They delve into Mac's perspectives on the latest in tech like Clubhouse and Gamestop, his love for corgis, and the quintessential qualities he seeks in founders. Tune in for an episode that's full of flavor, insight, and a touch of mayhem that even Mac's mom won't forget​!Links:www.rarebreed.vcwww.twitter.com/MacConwell​

On today’s episode of Get Found, Get Funded, we speak to our very own McKeever Conwell about his new fund RareBreed Ventures. We touch on his background, how he created RareBreed Ventures, and how he uses Twitter to help other entrepreneurs.

McKeever's primary role at TEDCO is to find, help make investment decisions on, and help build Maryland-based startups. McKeever (Mac) works closely with many TEDCO portfolio companies to help them secure customers, partnerships, and funding. Mac also conducts extensive outreach to all of the tech communities and ecosystems in Maryland and does a lot of work supporting founders who consider themselves to be economically or socially disadvantaged. In 2017 Mac helped launch the Minority Business Pre-seed Fund and what was later transitioned to the Builder Fund. Mac uses the knowledge he gained working in both public and private sectors as a software engineer and CEO to help startups be successful. A Baltimore native, Mac joined a co-op program with the Department of Defense in 2006 and obtained a top-secret security clearance. He went on to become a government contractor working in software development for several companies, including Northrop Grumman and Booz Allen Hamilton. In October 2009, he co-founded his first tech startup, Given.to, which completed two accelerators, Accelerate Baltimore and NewMe Accelerator. Mac was later named entrepreneur-in-residence at NewMe. Mac and his team sold the technology in 2014. His next venture, RedBerry, was accepted into the Dreamit Ventures Accelerator in Philadelphia. Mac has been a guest on Huffington Post Live several times and his companies have been featured in many media outlets such as USA Today, Washington Post, BET, CNN Headline News, and Black Enterprise. He attended Morgan State University, majoring in Computer Science.

Jamarlin talks to investor and serial entrepreneur McKeever Conwell about being inspired by a teacher to become an engineer, getting recruited out of college by a U.S. intelligence agency, and making pre-seed investments for Maryland's tech development state fund, TEDCO. They also discuss Elon Musk's $20M fraud settlement with the SEC and why so many folks are soft on white-collar crime. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Patrick Jackson who is the Chief Technology Officer at Disconnect, which allows people to browse the web without being tracked. given the new GDPR regulations you could say these guys launched way before their tme. Disconnect launched in early 2010 and has gone on to have over 50mill users, they’ve raised a millions of dollars and have google chrome and Firefox extensions of the product. Before joining Disconnect Patrick founded a number of startups through his company imaginary feet which received over 8 million downloads across various apps that they launched. Like one of our previous guests, Mckeever Conwell the 2nd Patrick also worked at the NSA, in fact they worked together and then went on to launch a number of startups together. In this episode we talk about how to launch an app quickly and also when to kill your project , why press releases don’t matter and why you shouldn’t buy into the hype.

Mckeever Conwell, 2nd, AKA Mac is a Baltimore native serial entrepreneur. He’s currently a Deal Team Coordinator at TEDCO which is an independent organization that strives to be Maryland’s lead source for entrepreneurial business assistance and seed funding. Prior to joining TEDCO Mac worked with the Department of Defense where he achieved Top Secret Security Clearance. He also went on to co-found two startups going through a number of accelerators including NewME. Mac sold of those startups back in 2014. We talk about life as a programmer to life a CEO and why it’s hard to be a founder of color in tech. This is a huge topic in the industry right now and I’m so glad that we got to dive into with and get Mac’s perspective.

Hosts and Guest Expert, McKeever Conwell of TEDCO, discuss with Dr. Crystal Icenhour, CEO of Aperiomics, the considerations in structuring a second round (Series A) of funding, including how much to raise, amount of equity to give up, and leverage in terms.

In this podcast, Riana, Erin, and McKeever discuss the components that are important to building a diverse ecosystem of entrepreneurs and the role of governmental offices of economic development and innovation. Erin Horne McKinney is the co-founder of Black Female Founders (#BFF) and KissIntel mobile app. She was previously a Senior Advisor on Innovation and Entrepreneurship to D.C.'s Deputy Mayor for Greater Economic Opportunity (DMGEO). McKeever Conwell II is the Deal Team Lead at TEDCO (Technology Development Corporation of Maryland). Previously, he worked as a government contractor for the Department of Defense doing software development before joining TEDCO. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/venture-vignettes/support

On this episode our guest is Mckeever Conwell, Deal Team Coordinator for Tedco, an independent organization that strives to be Maryland’s lead source for entrpreneurial business assistance and seed funding for the development of startup companies in Maryland’s innovation economy. We will be discussing venture capitalism, startup life, entrepreneurship and more!

On this episode our guest is Mckeever Conwell, Deal Team Coordinator for Tedco, an independent organization that strives to be Maryland’s lead source for entrpreneurial business assistance and seed funding for the development of startup companies in Maryland’s innovation economy. We will be discussing venture capitalism, startup life, entrepreneurship and more!

We speak with St. Augustine's University President Emerita Dianne Suber about the recent meetings between the White House and HBCUs. We also speak with North Carolina A&T alum and STEMly co-founder Devon Rollins, and with Maryland Technology Development Corporation executive McKeever Conwell and Harbor Bank Community Development Vice President Calvin Young about a new startup initiative with potential impact for HBCU students and alumni.

Everyone wants to be an entrepreneur nowadays; in lieu of becoming an actor or musician, some of us think it's easier to build a business or start a podcast that gets wildly popular overnight (it's not easier). Enter McKeever Conwell. The college dropout turned tech investor started his career at the Department of Defense. By...